School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
Organisation profile
Sustainability has many facets. Inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching characterize the School of Sustainability. Scientists in our research projects work together in the laboratory, on the heath, in the grassland, in the classroom, with the city administration, with farmers, with non-governmental organizations, with companies, with students in the lecture hall and of course at their desks.
Furthermore, we work with regional and national political actors, e.g. ministries, as well as international organizations, e.g. UNEP, UNESCO, EU. We are part of national and international bodies, e.g. sustainability advisory boards of companies, member of the German Sustainability Award, World Biodiversity Council (IPBES), in order to contribute to social change with scientific findings.
Main research areas
Vision
Sustainability science investigates on a theoretical, conceptual and empirical level how to promote sustainable development and how to find and implement effective solutions for current social and ecological challenges. The aim is to create a more sustainable future.
Sustainability researchers are called upon to take responsibility for their research, which is anchored in existing scientific knowledge and methods and serves to make the world a better place for everyone.
Mission
We promote change towards a sustainable future by developing theories, concepts and practices of inclusive education for sustainability, research, governance and management.
We acknowledge the diversity and dynamics of values, norms and behaviour and contribute with transdisciplinary methods to ensuring that tensions and differences between different disciplines, methods, topics and standards are fruitfully taken up and used with productive compromises and further developments towards sustainable development.
Principles
The School of Sustainability is guided by the normative concepts of ecological system integrity and social and economic justice.
Ecological system integrity refers to the safeguarding of life-support systems, as well as the maintenance of the well-being of life on Earth.
With social and economic justice we strive for a world in which all people can fulfil their potential without endangering system integrity and the well-being of others.
Information about the School
The School of Sustainability includes...
... ca. 25 professors
... ca. 100 research assistants
... ca. 1000 students in Bachelor and Master courses
In various inter- and transdisciplinary projects we are constantly researching and working together on changes and solutions for current challenges.
MONA: Modes of sustainability-related research in comparison (MONA): Modes of research and their impact on scientific and societal project outcomes - a comparative analysis of 100 third-party funded sustainability-related research projects
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Jahn, S. (Project staff)
15.04.13 → 08.09.21
Project: Research
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 12: Aktivierte Pflanzenkohle aus Elbauen - neue Wertschöpfungen durch die Entwicklung einer neuen Stoffstromstrategie für das Auengrünland der Elbe
Urban, B. (Project manager, academic) & Krüger, F. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.05.13 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Aufbau einer Videodatenbank mit Unterrichtssequenzen zum Umgang mit Heterogenität im Unterricht
Niebert, K. (Project manager, academic) & Paulicke, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Bibliographie Nachhaltiger Konsum
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, D. (Coordination) & Timm, J.-M. (Project staff)
01.05.13 → 10.03.15
Project: Research
Lehrforschungsprojekt: Geschlecht und sexuelle Orientierung im Blick politischer Bildung
Offen, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → 30.09.13
Project: Teaching
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 13: Nachhaltige Beschaffung - Herausforderungen und Gestaltungsoptionen KMUs, Stadtverwaltung und Kammern
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Sühlsen, K. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.05.13 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Empowering Ethiopian Colleges of Teacher Education to Address Environmental and Sustainability Issues - Research Group Linkage
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Adomßent, M. (Project manager, academic)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
01.06.13 → 14.09.21
Project: Research
Inklusion als Gegenstand der Weiterbildung von Multiplikator_innen. Professioneller Habitus, Selbst- und Bildungsverständnis, professionelle Haltung
Offen, S. (Project manager, academic) & Budde, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.13 → 31.10.14
Project: Research
Kollektiv-privater Landbesitz und die Krise des (Re)Produktiven
Dannenberg, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.13 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Nachhaltigkeit neu erzählen - Durchführung eines Praxisprojektes zur Entwicklung eines innovativen Formats der Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation in der journalistischen Weiterbildung
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Humburg, A. (Project staff)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
18.06.13 → 18.02.14
Project: Practical Project